Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-03-26
NEBRASKA.

The rabbit pest is spreading in Frontie
county.
Waunetta oGers an excellent water power
to mill men.
Fremont will have a street railway and a
broom. factory.
The Union Pacific has completed a round
house at Loup City.
James b. Ward has been commissioned
postmaster at Cowles.
Preparations are being made to work the
coal fields around Douglas.
Hastings is fourteen years Old this spring,
with 10000 population.
High and low license will be the issue In
Wahoo at the spring election.
For a bonus OF s., ZOO, r. Wilcox will put In
a roller grist mill at Galloway.
Wells, Fargo d Co. have extended their
messenger service to Amselmo.
This year promises to be al active one for
railroad building In western Nebraska.
The proposed Thurman building in Ere
mont, one Of the finest, will cost $4,000
An extra passenger train will soon be put
on the line between Lincoln and Ravenna.
Platte Center voted school bonds for the
purpose of building a large school house.
The postoflice at Gardner, Platte county,
has been discontinued. Its mail will go TO
Duncan.
The census OF Broken Bow is being taken
with a view TO adopting n city form OF govern.
ment.
John Sanderson, OF Broken Bow, stabbed
his brother fatally on Sunday e%ycuinL. He is
under arrest.
The citizens of Belyidere have organized a
board Of trade and commenced work with
thirty members.
At Dorchester there are in store 1000 0
bushels Of corn, which sill be held until there
is a rise In the market.
Algernon will not get a depot after all, the
railroad commission refusing to grant the Pc
tition OF its citizens.
The Elkhorn Valley base ball club has been
organized al Beemer. 1t will contest with
%neighboring cities.
The State teachers association will hold
It's twenty.fourth annual convention at Lin
coin, March %, 80 and 81.
The herdic has been introduced In Beatrice.
The state Sunday school convention will
meet at Grand Island June /.
The estimated capital stock belonging to
the Nebraska roads is fixed at SCI, 222, S32, 63,
or an average Of S2l, 1888 per mile.
Numerous eases Of measles In a mild form
exists Ia Saunders county, and the schools
have been closed in consequence.
W. O.. Saylor, a saloonkeeper at McCook
was arrested for selling liquor on election
day. lie was placed under $500 bonds.
Thomas Wood, a Clay county farmer, ha,
the Prize hog Of his section. The grea'
grunter weighs $40 pounds and is 3 year,
old.
Cornelius Daily, a laborer employed on the
water-works at Plattsmouth fell from the .oE
of the stand pipe. eighty feet. on Monday anC
was killed. He resided at Cincinnati, whittier
the remains were sent.
A. II. Shoemaker, wife and children, o.
Broken Bow, went down with a bridge ovel
Clear creek and into the deep water. The,
were rescued from the bath thoroughly
chilled but uniniured.
b'hh a AAcHOANiN1 " ''h h'AA ~
| Aurora, while placing a shot gun in his bug
gy last week, exploded the weapon while IA.
left hand covered the muzzle, terribly mutt
latiDg that member and necessitating its am
putatiou.
A Mindcn young lady, DESTROYS of trying
tobogganing at home, procured her mother
ironing board and began sliding down stairs
The street door happened to be opened at tn,
time, and the young lady did not stop unit
she made her debut in the street in a sadly
mixed up condition.
On Wednesday evening Red Oak was tht
section Of train No. l3 had a tail end collision
with the first section, while the latter wa!
taking on fuel. A boy aged twelve years
named Frank Matthews, was killed and sew
cral others were injured.
Grand Island has ~inaugurated a new de
.he city's support by imposing upon every
class OF business within its borders a license
for the privilege. The cost OF licenses ranges
from s5 to 500 per annum. Eawkers and
peddlers are TO be taxed $40 each day.
Recently an individual named Montgomery
Is alleged to have been doing quite a lucrative
business by swindllng homesteadeGs In Phelps
and Kcarney counties out Of $50 each. The
plan was TO go to the party who he'd taken a
homestead, tell him &c had been wrongly 10,
Gated, and produce papers stating that be was
a government detective sent out to reclaim
the property, but he Eould fix it up for $50
each.
j. r.. Erumstadt informs the editor OF the
Valentine Republican that the sod in the hay
fats Of Cherry county makes a very excellent
article of peat. The discovery was accidental.
Mr.. BrumstGdt, being In the fats putting up
his winters supply of hay, commenced burn
ing a fire bre2l, around the atacks, when be
found that the earth had ignlted and was
burning very nach as he had often seen In
the peat fields In the old county.
An amateur dramatic club ia ihn northern
part Of Burt county tackled a aar-like play
Saturday and developed "a tragedy not down
on the bills. The captain OF the u lmic braves
grasped a musket In the hands of one OF the
soldiers as a reprimaEi for carelessoess. The
gun was overloaded with q blank c%artridgeand
paper wSls, and was discharged too close to
John Montgomery, an old man, completely
sh&tteripg his arm. He ia not expected 70
live.